The MCU movies just keep coming, this time with Thunderbolts, the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first MCU film in a minute that critics are saying is actually kinda good.
Directed by Jake Schreier, with a screenplay written by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo, Thunderbolts is basically the Suicide Squad of the MCU. Florence Pugh stars as Yelena Belova, aka the adopted sister of Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow. Yelena, a black widow assassin herself, was first introduced in 2021’s Black Widow movie. Now she’s charged with leading a team of antiheroes—Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and Red Guardian (David Harbour)—on a dangerous mission that could redeem their less-than-favorable reputations.
Also starring Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Thunderbolts will be the last of the “Phase Five” Marvel films. Next up, Phase Six, with the upcoming
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